That's when Craig said he received a call from a city-employed recruiter, whom he would not name, feeling out his potential interest in the Detroit police chief job.

Craig's career and life began in Detroit. He worked for the
Detroit Police Department from about 1977 to 1980 before being laid off
along with 1,500 officers, he said, and moving to Los Angeles.

For the next 28 years Craig worked his way up the ranks of the Los
Angeles Police Department to a command position and in 2009 accepted a
police chief role in Portland, Maine.

He became the Cincinnati police chief in 2011 and visits Detroit regularly to visit family and friends.

Chief Chester Logan — who officially lost "interim" from his title, but remains the interim chief — began heading the Detroit Police Department in October after Godbee "retired" amid allegations of a sexual relationship with a subordinate.

As of Thursday, Detroit Police Commission President Jerome Warfield said he didn't know if Logan had applied for the long-term chief job.